 | David Baker - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 400 pages
..."spondees" appear regularly in iambic verse in English, none better as an example than Milton's famous "Rocks, Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, and shades of death" (Paradise Lost 2.621). What we call them does little to help us understand the underlying metrical principles at work.... | |
 | Daniel Mario Abondolo - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 332 pages
...chasteyn, lynde, laurer,/ mapul, thorn, bech, hasel, ew, whippletree — {The Knight's Tale 2291-3) and Milton's Rocks, Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, and shades of death (Paradise Lost 2.621); these and others like them exhibit the interplay of a trope of contiguity with the tension... | |
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Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death. 
